1: Introduction
This tutorial is intended for those people who have little to no HTML coding experience. If you already understand the concepts presented here, jump to the intermediate tutorial.
All the beginners pages use only the tags taught in the beginners tutorial, so doing a 'view source' will not present you with anything not taught in this tutorial. It will instead provide you with a real, working example of everything I cover here.
The extreme basics: HTML stands for HyperText Markup Language. An HTML page is essentially plain text with 'tags' marking off sections for the browser. Tags are enclosed in angle brackets: < >. There is usually (with a few exceptions) a starting tag and an ending tag: they differ only by a '/' before the name of the tag (the browser has to know which tag it's ending, after all!). The text to be modified goes between the starting and ending tags: eg, <P> marks the beginning of a paragraph, and </P> marks the end of a paragraph. The text of the paragraph would then go between the two tags.
You can format your 'source code' any way you like: the browser will treat words as words and any number of spaces as a single space. To modify how the browser displays the text, you need the tags.
That said, jump on in!
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